Mikheil Saakashvili
Right now I am sharing experience with our Ukrainian brothers and sisters in Kyiv on something we Georgians have known too well: hundreds of Russian tanks, armored vehicles and grad system crossing an international border and attacking villages and towns. And the world hesitating how to call it. Well, it is neither a separatist conflict, nor a terrorist attack, even less a “Russian counter-attack" (when did Ukrainians attack the Russian territory???). It is an invasion. And a war. Why won’t the international community call it by its name? I think there are more important things going on in our region now than just pouring ice water on one’s head. The fate of Ukraine, Georgia and all Russian neighbors are now at stake in Donetsk, Luhansk, Mariupol.
Slava Ukraine!
RUSSIA INVADES TO UKRAINE!!!
US: Russian-directed Counteroffensive is Underway in Ukraine
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday that Russian incursions in southeastern Ukraine “indicate a Russian-directed counteroffensive is likely underway in Donetsk and Luhansk.”
Ukraine reported that pro-Russian rebel forces entered a strategically critical town in the southeast on Wednesday.
"We've also seen reports of separatists shelling residential areas in a coastal town between the border and Mariupol, and we have seen reports of heavy fighting and shelling near the city and airport in Donetsk," Psaki told reporters.
Psaki said the news was "of deep concern to us."
"We're also concerned by the Russian government's unwillingness to tell the truth even as its soldiers are found 30 miles inside Ukraine," Psaki said. "Russia is sending its young men into Ukraine, but are telling - are not telling them where they're going or telling their parents what they're doing."
A reporter asked Psaki why she used the word "likely" rather than outright confirming that a counteroffensive is underway.
"I decided to say 'likely,'" Psaki replied.
"I wouldn't be saying it," she added, "if we weren't as concerned as my comments indicate."
